Not to be served

Are we shirking service and missing God's adventuresome best? | Joel Belz

Are medical missionaries relics of the past? How many career missionary doctors and nurses do you still know? Are your children likely to grow up without stirring first-person stories of missionary surgeons stitching up patients by the aid of a flashlight after all-night trips in dugout canoes?

According to the current issue of Today's Christian Doctor magazine, the statistics are worse than sobering. For example: Thirty missions organizations right now are reporting 33 hospitals worldwide without a single doctor or nurse on their staffs.

There's a lesson here for all of us who have devoted much of our lives and energies to promoting the Christian worldview. It is possible, in our all-out effort to integrate our faith with the rest of our lives, to do such a good job of such integration that our faith all but disappears.